Happy Canada Day, Rusty. I saw Rose Marie a few months ago. The two leads Jeannette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy were meant to star in a operetta film version of Robin Hood released shortly after the Flynn film.
Warner Bros. had controlling rights on the 1890 Robin Hood comic opera and traded those rights to MGM in exchange for MGM's draft scripts of a non-musical Robin Hood. The contractual agreements were that the Nelson/Macdonald film will come out a year after the Flynn one.
I'm not sure why they ended up abandoning the Macdonald/Eddy musical version, as MGM was still releasing pre-production publicity after the success of Flynn's Robin Hood.
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Warner Bros. had controlling rights on the 1890 Robin Hood comic opera and traded those rights to MGM in exchange for MGM's draft scripts of a non-musical Robin Hood. The contractual agreements were that the Nelson/Macdonald film will come out a year after the Flynn one.
I'm not sure why they ended up abandoning the Macdonald/Eddy musical version, as MGM was still releasing pre-production publicity after the success of Flynn's Robin Hood.